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I took step 3 over christmas. First day 22 and second on the 27. Wow this test blows.
Day 1: 5 office passages and 2 ER/Inpatient. WTH is up with the ethics questions and some of the office questions were so far fetched medicine. Things like someone coming for gender identity issues and lesbians wanting to have kids and nurses grabbing you on the floor to see patients not yours. The ER/Inpatient were the worst, there was absolutely no time to read the question and answer. The questions are all long, all have many test results and many negative exams. I felt most of the ER/Inpatient were pretty much testing your sixth sense, where do you sense the diagnosis will be and thus the treatment. You have to "sense" where the damn scenario is taking you cause you dont have the time to sit down and pile the symptoms in your head. Moral of this story: the exam is mostly office but those ER/Inpatient passages will kill you. I saw at least 5 rash pictures if not more. I saw 3 eye pictures. Only a handful of EKGs and frankly they were simple. (What a waste, you'd think they would like to test you on the ACLS protocol eh?) This day can officially be labeled: "OBGYN and Screens". At least a quarter of the questions were OBGYN (Clinic+Inpatient+ER).
Day 2: Shorter passages. 2 office and 2 inpatient/ER. This time the office killed me cause they were OUT THERE. Question that asked the about the third in line risk for athrosclerosis or what would have made the patient the way he is today. What is this, an epidemiology exam? The ER/inpatient did the same damage as the day before. I am so pissed at the passages cause they honestly don't test medical knowledge... I suppose that's step 2 "CK". They test you on your third eye in medicine. The 9 CCS cases were a joke to me. I studied my butt off for CCS and it definitely helped. They even tried to trick me three times (twice giving me a patient that needs to be inpatient or ER and the other giving me a postop complication which is classic in my fellowship
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So many subjects didnt come up like TTP, antibodies of immune diseases, barely endocrine at all. I felt that the exam was rediculous. Thank God for the CCS... I'm banking on it to kick my score up. I am honestly not surprised so many people fail this test. It's nothing like step 2.
Day 1: 5 office passages and 2 ER/Inpatient. WTH is up with the ethics questions and some of the office questions were so far fetched medicine. Things like someone coming for gender identity issues and lesbians wanting to have kids and nurses grabbing you on the floor to see patients not yours. The ER/Inpatient were the worst, there was absolutely no time to read the question and answer. The questions are all long, all have many test results and many negative exams. I felt most of the ER/Inpatient were pretty much testing your sixth sense, where do you sense the diagnosis will be and thus the treatment. You have to "sense" where the damn scenario is taking you cause you dont have the time to sit down and pile the symptoms in your head. Moral of this story: the exam is mostly office but those ER/Inpatient passages will kill you. I saw at least 5 rash pictures if not more. I saw 3 eye pictures. Only a handful of EKGs and frankly they were simple. (What a waste, you'd think they would like to test you on the ACLS protocol eh?) This day can officially be labeled: "OBGYN and Screens". At least a quarter of the questions were OBGYN (Clinic+Inpatient+ER).
Day 2: Shorter passages. 2 office and 2 inpatient/ER. This time the office killed me cause they were OUT THERE. Question that asked the about the third in line risk for athrosclerosis or what would have made the patient the way he is today. What is this, an epidemiology exam? The ER/inpatient did the same damage as the day before. I am so pissed at the passages cause they honestly don't test medical knowledge... I suppose that's step 2 "CK". They test you on your third eye in medicine. The 9 CCS cases were a joke to me. I studied my butt off for CCS and it definitely helped. They even tried to trick me three times (twice giving me a patient that needs to be inpatient or ER and the other giving me a postop complication which is classic in my fellowship
) So many subjects didnt come up like TTP, antibodies of immune diseases, barely endocrine at all. I felt that the exam was rediculous. Thank God for the CCS... I'm banking on it to kick my score up. I am honestly not surprised so many people fail this test. It's nothing like step 2.
